Special Announcement - Infrastructure Upgrade at 17吃瓜

Members of the University and PEI sports community are invited to join Mr. Sean Casey, Member of Parliament for Charlottetown, on behalf of the Honourable Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development and Minister responsible for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency; the Honourable Richard Brown, Minister of Workforce and Advanced Learning; Dr. Alaa Abd-El-Aziz, President and Vice-Chancellor of the 17吃瓜, and Mr. Mike O鈥橤rady, Vice-President, Innovation and Strategic Development at Holland College for a special announcement regarding an infrastructure upgrade on the 17吃瓜 campus.    

17吃瓜 EMBA Speaker Series: Matt Marx

We are very pleased to announce that the 17吃瓜 Executive MBA program will be hosting a special guest speaker event with Matt Marx on Thursday, August 25 from 4:30 to 6:00pm at Marc's Studio, 125 Sydney Street. Most entrepreneurs focus on writing a business plan, prototyping their product, and raising capital. But they often ignore鈥攐r postpone鈥攃ritical organizational issues that may have as much or more impact on their eventual success. Who should be on the founding team? How do we allocate rewards including equity? What should everyone鈥檚 roles be? Unfortunately, the 鈥渙bvious鈥� decision can be dead wrong鈥ut the entrepreneur doesn鈥檛 realize this until it is months or years too late. Matt Marx is an Associate Professor of Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Strategic Management and Mitsui Career Development Professor of Entrepreneurship at MIT Sloan School of Management. Drawing on his experience working in both Silicon Valley and Boston startups, Marx studies the systematic and institutional barriers to the growth of new ventures. He holds seven patents, and was previously an inventor and an executive at multiple startup companies in the speech recognition industry. As vice president of professional services at Tellme Networks, he led a team of 75 in growing annualized revenue from $5 million to more than $100 million. Marx holds a BS in symbolic systems from Stanford University, an SM in media arts and sciences from MIT, and an MBA and a DBA in business administration from Harvard University.  

Let's Talk Teaching Day

Please join us for this year's Let's Talk Teaching Day on Tuesday, September 6, at 10:00 a.m. in HSB 104. The theme of the day is "Finding Common Ground." We all teach, but what we teach, how we teach, why we teach, and even who we teach are often different. Are these differences important to our sense of ourselves as a faculty鈥攁nd to our notions of what a university education is for? How do these differences affect student expectations and performance as they move between Faculties and Schools during their degrees鈥攁nd how can we help them negotiate those differences? In short, how can we find鈥攁nd clearly articulate鈥攕ome "common ground" for our teaching at 17吃瓜? A combination of larger group and smaller break-out group discussions will address such questions as Who is in our classrooms鈥攁nd why are they there? How does this make a difference in our teaching? How do we use class time? What is the point/purpose of class time? How do we think about the relationships among teaching, retention, and success? How does technology get used in our classrooms? What is the relationship between our technology use and (our expectations for) student learning? How do we articulate relationship between teaching and learning in our different Faculties and Schools? What is the point of a university education? How do we tell the story of life after university鈥攖o students, to parents, to community members, to ourselves? Our aim will be to generate some concrete strategies to take back to our Faculties and Schools, our units, and our classrooms that address "finding common ground."  Coffee and breakfast snacks will be served at 9:40; the day will begin at 10:00; lunch will be provided at noon; and we plan to wrap up between 2:30 and 3:00.  If you have any questions, please email Gerald at the Faculty Development Office: fdo@upei.ca or (902) 620-5217.
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